I don't think cursing reduces the intensity of pain, but it helps you to deal with it. It's like the closest thing to a pro-active approach that you can get in the case of accidental injury, and the idea that cursing and screaming distracts you from the pain/occupies your brain sounds pretty reasona...

That's what god gave us mp3 players for. And those who don't own one don't seem to mind the music that you find so crappy. I hate pop music, just like you do, but forcing your personal taste on others isn't a real solution to the problem of other people forcing their taste and/or marketing strategie...

Here you go then. Subbed version. It's even worse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-K9V9qz6P4&feature=related Actually, this one made me lol. Such a taste- and shameless exploitation of fear and regret. And what's the message? "If only I had had a better life insurance to make me a better ...

I don't think I lost points for it, but I got a kind of irritated remark on it - 'That's a very extreme example!' - when in my Educational Science 101 test I used Brave New World as source for an example of classical contitioning, adding "(stolen from Aldous Huxley)". Apparently she didn't...

Now they both just have to realize that they - obviously!!!!! - worship the same god like the Jews, just in a different way, and we'll be another step closer to world peace. EDIT: Oh, they're about to do just that. Wow... That article actually provided me with full five minutes of faith in humanity ...

You could post unrelated (philosophical?) questions, and not provide an answer. Or tell them in which book to look for the post-it with the answer. Hey, you could make a circular scavenger hunt that leads them from literature to good books about the arts to nice science books... You only have to mak...

Append: 'I accidentally an empty pot. Is this dangerous?':D I'd probably just remove the notes and collect them untill I find out who posted them. Then I'd leave them on their desk, one by one, with an note attached saying: 'This one wasn't funny' 'This one wasn't funny, either' 'Actually your notes...

I just got new pointe shoes! I've got new pointe shoes!!! I haven't danced en pointe anymore since April 2002, but now I'll start again and I'm so happyyyyy! Oh me yarm am I happy!!!!!!!! Ö.Ö SO happy *sigh* Our class was split and I'm in the 'advanced' half, which means more torture and our teacher...

If it's not too much trouble, could you get the results from your friend when they become available? I'm kind of interested now. Sure, I'll post the resluts here :-) And thanks to those who participated after my first thank you post :-) My friend was kind of flabbergasted when I told her about the ...

Whoah, you guys are great! :) Thanks a lot, so far. I assumed that's what was being tested - the association to the word of the color, not the color itself. That's what I thought, too. EDIT: I read over your replies, and the question for which you served as control group can now safely be answered.....

A friend of mine is doing some research about colours and what people tend to associate with them. There were some surprising results in our own forum, and now she needs a control group to see who's a bit off, we or her expectations. She didn't say what she's doing the research for, but I think I ca...

... 2. Classically conditioning does not work with these animals, so put the skinner box away. ... How? Why? Bad memory? I love hedgehogs, too. There are a lot of adult ones where I live. I often meet one or two when I'm going home from training. Once I went past a front yard in the evening and hea...

I occasionally freak out at the enormity of the world and the advancement of humanity with regards to technology and productivity. I mean, I'm driving a car on a road with hundreds of other cars, and the road stretches for miles and is 4 lanes wide either side, and there's all these buildings every...

I sometimes can't get over the fact how unlikely the universe is, and then I wonder what I really am and where my thoughts come from, and if they actually are my thoughts. This is scary and I don't like it. It makes me feel like the order in the universe could collapse without warning, or like I cou...

Just how naive are you guys??!!?!? That boy was clearly trying to save you all! You know how the people governing you are really Lizard Aliens in human form? Yeah, the kid knew where they were raising their young and he destroyed them! He's a hero, probably sent here from outer space, only appearing...

@tiny: You missed out on some odd parts in the final scene where where the pro-Religious scriptwriters additions and expanded dialog came into conflict with the original scene, producing some wildly bi-directional dialog that was at once pro-Religious and anti-Religious.[/quote]I left the room when ...

My SO watched that movie, I came in, I saw ~10sec, I started mocking the religious overtones that were so blatantly obvious that I'm pretty sure that you'd have to be really dense to not notice them. I wanted to punch the screen when the evil, evil nonbelievers persecute poor pius Horton and his lit...

Solaris is a great book! It was fun to read, thoughtful and actually quite informative. I read it after seeing the movie with Clooney, which I kind of liked until I discovered how much they actually slaughtered and disemboweled Lem's ideas. Lem's strengh doesn't lie so much in dialogue or descripti...

You don't need a gun to kill people. Call me naive, but wouldn't it be more sustainable to keep a closer look at kids and young adults and offer more support for the outsiders and/or psychiologically impaired? Everyone who takes a weapon and kills himself after randomly killing other people has at l...

Most of the time I start with a pen and some paper. It's just a different feeling to write by hand and to read over a handwritten text. It's slower and to me it's more... dunno, there's more intimacy with the story when you can touch and smell the ink and the paper. It's a more intense way of workin...

If you ignore the copyright mess, fanfiction's essentially a medium like any other. Yeah, it's an advantage to belong to a fandom who's original is so old that it has already become public domain. Is there more fanfiction of classical literature out there? I haven't seen any besides fics around Ler...

Good fanfiction is rare. It's *the* genre for people who aren't creative enough to come up with their own characters. I've read over a metric ton of phics (Phantom of the Opera fics) and there were only a hand full that were worth the read; most of them were just juvenile crap and retellings of the ...

So... is this going to be an increasingly huge conflict with politicians saying stupid stuff because they think it's just a small affair, and that stupid stuff later coming to haunt them because Russia is pissed off and Georgia is whining and they think they can't break their promises? Ach, I hate p...

My personal experience is that light feelings of sickness (tiredness, a bit of a head ache, a slightly sore throat) go away with light training. But training with fever, is a no-go. Many dancers do it, but that's a we-are-so-dedicated thing and should be filed under 'S' like stupidity. Fever means: ...

I grew up with the radio on in the 80's, and (with some exeptions) can't stand popular 80's music. My parents also listened to German pop music along the lines of Nena and Pur, and although I used to like them as a kid I can't stand them now. Childhood music that I'll always love is: * Frank Zappa. ...